Best 389 quotes in «classic quotes» category

Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring.

What do you mean, is that it? I just saved his career and the CIA from ruin and he calls me a perfidious ass." "What's perfidious mean?" Ace asked from the driver's seat. "You deceived him and stole his girlfriend out from under his nose," Julia said to Conrad. "I think technically 'ass' is a pretty mild revilement." "Revilement?" Ace looked at one and then the other in his rearview. "This is some kind of spy talk, isn't it? Okay, I'm down with it. Just tell me what it means.

Why should their liberty than ours be more?

Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.

You must come to Lockleigh again," said Miss Molyneux, very sweetly, to Isabel, ignoring this remark of Isabel's friend. Isabel looked into her quiet eyes a moment, and for that moment seemed to see in their grey depths the reflexion of everything she had rejected in rejecting Lord Warburton—the peace, the kindness, the honour, the possessions, a deep security and a great exclusion. She kissed Miss Molyneux and then she said: "I'm afraid I can never come again.

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes

You may try your hardest and fail, but you have the choice weather or not to get back up again" -Anna Celeste Vega

Wir müssen verführerisch sein, sonst sind wir gar nichts.

You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat.Try fighting with your head for a change . . .it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Your slave and enemy, D.Karamazov

A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

A classic is a book that remains in print

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time?

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.

A great song will be great forever - it's timeless and classic in that way.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Alien is one of my favourite films. I'm a classic horror fan. It's a tough one for me, because I get scared quite easily.

All men are created equal.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Am I no a bonny fighter?

And what exotic part of the world do you come from?

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

Are you running away from something?

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

Classical ballet will never die.

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

Can you tell the difference between them?

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.